“you retain all rights to the inputs you provide to our services and you own any output you rightfully receive from our services to the extent permitted by law.”
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The clause allocates intellectual property rights over inputs and outputs to the customer, subject to a legal permissibility limit on output ownership.
Interpretive note: The qualifier 'to the extent permitted by law' limits output ownership but is preserved in the claim. The word 'rightfully' conditions ownership on the legitimacy of receipt and is also preserved.
You retain all rights to what you submit to OpenAI's services and own the outputs you rightfully receive, subject to what the law permits.
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The clause allocates intellectual property rights over inputs and outputs to the customer, subject to a legal permissibility limit on output ownership.
You retain all rights to what you submit to OpenAI's services and own the outputs you rightfully receive, subject to what the law permits.
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